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Do you want to read my book, a chapter at a time?

By Steve | Published: September 14, 2011
Molly Barton, VP of digital publishing at Penguin Books, has me resurrecting my whacky idea to write the great American novel in serial form and in collaboration with readers. In a wiki. She writes in Mashable about crowd sourcing books online, giving undiscovered authors the opportunity to build audience and attract publishers. I don’t know [...]
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I love my old friend’s photo blog

By Steve | Published: August 14, 2010
I’ve kept track of Essdras Suarez via his Facebook posts. Until today, however, I hadn’t followed the link to his photo blog. What a treat. A Boston Globe photographer, he pulls a broad range of assignments: from cupcake food shot to Haiti earthquake relief. It’s impressive: he captures exquisite moments, whether firing away on the [...]
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Story of the week: How to defeat willpower

By Steve | Published: January 28, 2010
WNYC’s Radiolab created the most intriguing audio science story I’ve ever heard. Aired this week on NPR’s Morning Edition, two narrators play off each other to lure you through the back story that sets up the report on an astonishing experiment. A marketing professor had a set of subjects memorize a 2-digit number and another [...]
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What are reporters good for?

By Steve | Published: September 7, 2009
I bet all of us who make the jump from newspapers to PR ask, just before making the plunge: “When will they figure out I don’t know what I’m doing?” And I bet all of us quickly discover that we had severely underestimated the skills we developed in journalism. The realization may come when the [...]
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Newspapers just don’t listen

By Steve | Published: August 26, 2009
“I’m embarassed to say this,” the 30-something working mom told the focus group. “But as I’m pushing the kids out the door in the morning, I see that newspaper all wrapped in plastic and I pick it up and set it on the pile of other newspapers wrapped in plastic in the hallway. Eventually, I [...]
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Story of the week: Optimistic college grads

By Steve | Published: May 17, 2009
The jobless numbers are bad, as the TV anchor team reminded us in their lead-in. But even so, students who got their sheepskin Saturday at University of Colorado Denver were upbeat. How could they not be? The heavy cloud cover broke up precisely at 9 a.m., just as Pomp and Circumstances began to play. In [...]
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What news content will we pay for?

By Steve | Published: May 13, 2009
In a post earlier this week, I wrote about a conversation I had with digital music guru Jim Griffin, in which we got on a tangent about print journalism in the digital world. Jim’s idea of aggregating digital music, charging a micro-price and divvying the pool of money among artists and labels could translate to [...]
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